RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chief Raoni Metuktire, an Indigenous leader who became a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon forest in Brazil, was hospitalized with symptoms of pneumonia and ...

Chief Raoni Metuktire, an Indigenous leader who became a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon forest in Brazil, was hospitalized with symptoms of pneumonia and tested positive for ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It was considered to be among the world’s most productive partnerships between an Indigenous chief and a Westerner. For five decades, the Amazonian tribal leader and Belgian film ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this May 17, 2019 file photo, Brazil's rainforest activist Chief Raoni Metuktire attends a march for climate in Brussels ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon's most famous Indigenous leader called upon Brazil's president on Friday to defend the rights of Indigenous people. Chief Raoni Metuktire demanded that “invaders” be ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -At 93 years old, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire is urging Brazil to empower native peoples to preserve the Amazon rainforest and has warned that plans to build ...

BELEM, Brazil, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Raoni Metuktire, an Indigenous chief from Brazil's Amazon, will urge the region's head of state meeting here this coming week to step up their efforts to preserve the ...

STORY: METUKTIRE: "I don't understand why white people are stubborn and keep doing these kinds of actions. I don't know why they don't listen to us." "We, the Indigenous peoples, are feeling the ...

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2019 file photo, Kayapo tribal leader Raoni Metuktire smokes a pipe after a press conference in Bidart, southwestern France. The Indigenous leader emblematic of the fight for ...